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Brush and vacuum the
condenser at least twice a year for
maximum energy efficiency.
Place two thermometers in your
refrigerator, one in the freezer and
one in the fresh food compartment.
Check the thermometers each time you
open the door. The freezer
temperature should be less than 10°F
and the fresh food compartment
should be between 36 and 38°F.
When a refrigerator is warming up
and your frozen food starts thawing
out, most of the time the problem is
not the compressor or loss of Freon
but rather an electrical component
failure.
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NOTE: There are many components
that make up the modern day
refrigerator, failure of virtually
any one of them usually results in
the same end results, either the
refrigerator is not cooling or it is
too cold. Proper diagnosing can be
difficult and time consuming; they
require the expertise of a qualified
technician with the knowledge of
trouble-shooting components and
special diagnostic tools. Please
contact us for help!
Refrigerator Fails to Run:
Refrigerator Runs, but Fresh Food is
Warm / Frozen Food is Thawing:
Fresh Food Compartment is Freezing:
Water on the Floor, or in the Bottom
of the Refrigerator:
Refrigerator Fails to Run:
- Check for power (does
refrigerator light work?).
Plugged in?
- Check house breaker panel for
blown fuse or tripped breaker.
- If the refrigerator is getting
power but not starting your
problems can be a defrost timer,
failed temperature control,
compressor or compressor
relay/safety. Please contact us
for help!
Refrigerator Runs, but Fresh
Food is Warm / Frozen Food is
Thawing:
- Make sure if the refrigerator
is equipped with a light that it
is going off when the door is
closed, manually push the door
light switch button to test. If it
stays on replace switch. A light
staying on all the time in your
refrigerator can generate enough
heat to warm the inside of the
refrigerator and thaw food.
- Make sure the freezer door is
closing tightly and not allowing
warm air in. Excessively worn or
leaking door seals should be
replaced. Most doors can also be
realigned if required.
- Many refrigerators have a
condenser (grill mounted on
refrigerator back or box shaped
condenser mounted under the
refrigerator often cooled by a
fan). Be sure this fan is running
and that there is not excessive
lint or dust build up restricting
the cooling of the condenser. This
is a very important part of the
refrigerators performance.
- A leaky door makes your
refrigerator very inefficient and
costly to operate. Small cuts,
slits, or breaks in refrigerator
door gaskets can usually be filled
or glued with white Silicone
bathtub caulk.
- On refrigerators with coils
underneath rather than on the
back, particularly Coldspot,
Whirlpool, GE, Hotpoint, and
Amana, clean the coils twice a
year and check that the fan
underneath is blowing air out
through the “kick plate”. Also on
those brands ensure that the rear
cardboard cover is securely
attached.
- Your problem could be trouble
with the defrost circuit or a
failing compressor. You may need
to contact us for help!
Fresh Food Compartment is
Freezing:
- Turn the temperature control
to a warmer position. If the
situation doesn't improve likely
your cold control has failed. We
need to replace the "temperature
control", please contact us for
help!.
Water on the Floor, or in the
Bottom of the Refrigerator:
- Manufacturers have different
ways to dispose of the water
created during automatic defrost
cycles. The most common design
routes the water down a rubber
tube on the back of the
refrigerator to a tray beneath.
This tube often gets plugged with
breadcrumbs, peas etc. and can
generally easily be removed and
cleaned.
- Make sure the end of the hose
is sitting in the defrost tray.
- If your hose was not plugged
and you have found water running
down the back wall inside the
refrigerator or a pool under the
bottom crisper has formed. Check
if there is a small funnel located
on the back wall near the top
inside the refrigerator. It can
also get plugged; you can use a
small wire and work it in and out
of the hole.
- Some designs do run the water
down the back wall and have a
drain hole under the crisper, make
sure it is not plugged.
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